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, CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA. The camphor tree produces a white crystalline substance, camphor, which has been much used as insect repellant. If you have ever smelled a moth ball-thatâs camphor. It comes from the wood of the evergreen tree which can grow up to 100 feet and can have a canopy of 6 or 7 feet in diameter.f you have ever smelled a moth ball-thatâs camphor. It comes from the wood of the evergreen tree which can grow up to 100 feet and can have a canopy of 6 or 7 feet in diameter.
Like borneol, camphor has been used in the Orient as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cardiac stimulant, respiratory aid, and anthelmintic. The uses of camphor, as understood in the U.S., are quite similar to those for borneol used in China. These uses were outlined in the Eclectic Materia Medica in 1922 (12). Both the effects of low doses (therapeutic levels) and high doses (toxic levels) were depicted.